Giant Rat of Sumatra

A couple of prattles forthcoming this Autumn:

• 12th September — Q&A with students from Boston University. 43 Harrington Gardens, Kensington, London SW7 4JU. 4pm.
• 12th September — Reading at the launch of Somesuch Stories with Lucy Jones, Jessica Andrews, Emma-Lee Moss and Tim Burrows.  Hosted by Quo Vadis in The Blue Room, 26-29 Dean Street, Soho, London, W1D 3LL. 6.30pm, with booking advised.

• 18th September — Reading with Judith Goldman as part of Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre. 11 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London. WC1B 3RF, 7pm.

• 21st September — Participating in a ‘Novel Writer’s conversation’ at Spike Island in Bristol. Tickets priced at £5 and £3 concessions, with booking advised. Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX, 6.30-8pm.
• 28th September — Providing questionable content for National Poetry Day at The Alfred Tennyson, 7pm. 10 Motcomb St, Belgravia, London SW1X 8LA.

• 30th September — Reading with poets from the Sad Press stables as part of 2017’s Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair. 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
• 9th October — Faber ‘Debuts’ Social, reading alongside Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Olivia Sudjic, Joe Thomas, Paula Cocozza, and Fiona Mozley. Based at The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London W1W 7JD. Further details here, with readings from 7.30pm.

• 22nd October — Supporting the launch of Tom O. C. Wilson’s new album ‘Tell A Friend’. More details here, doors 7pm. Servant Jazz Quarters, 10a Bradbury Street, London N16 8JN.
• 27th October — Participation at UEA Live for The Writers’ Centre, Norwich. Further details concerning the day available here.  The Pig and Whistle, 2-8 All Saints Green, Norwich NR1 3NA. 6.30pm, freeee.

Really excited to support the double-launch event for Isabel Waidner‘s queer avant-garde novel Gaudy Bauble (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017), and ‘Not Here, a queer anthology of loneliness’ (Pilot Press, 2017) edited by Richard Dodwell.

Other reader/performers on the night include Timothy Thornton, Olivia Laing, and a DJ set with Chapter 10’s Charlie Porter. All taking place at The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD —  7.00pm, £3 — tickets available here.

Very pleased to act as judge for the fiction strand regarding the Austrian Cultural Forum’s recent competition ‘Variations on a Theme’, alongside Structo‘s Euan Monaghan and literary-translation whizzorama Jen Calleja. Congratualtions to the winners: fantastic entries, and very difficult to select the finalists from a strong field.

Assisted with the first evening of FLIGHTS, taking place on th7 March 2017 at the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London, on the eve of International Women’s Day.

Co-organised with Jennie Cole and Prue Chamberlain, this night of performances featured Aimée Lê, Alison Gibb, Ghazal Mosadeq, Mendoza, Mmmmm (Luna Montenegro & Adrian Fisher), Sandra Keating and Sophie Mayer. They were fantastic.

 SWIMMERS!

Reading with Emily Berry and Daisy LaFarge, New Evaristo Club, 57 Greek St, London W1D 3DX.

Delighted to read with Aki Schilz, Gary Budden and Kit Caless at the East London launch of An Unreliable Guide to London.

Kindly hosted at Burley Fisher Books, 400 Kingsland Road, E8 4AA